Trading Watch List 10.17.2024

The question was framed, according to some historians, by Josef Stalin at the Potsdam Conference. Winston Churchill had suggested that the Pope might be brought in to provide moral backing to the Allies’ campaigns against Hitler. Stalin must have wondered how morality would hold up against Panzer tanks. ‘How many divisions does the Pope have?’…

Trump’s justification for his latest round of tariffs came as a surprise: fentanyl. But what have opioids got to do with trade? For the Chinese, absolutely everything… President-elect Trump’s tariffs will come as a surprise to nobody. Except the stock market, apparently. The companies affected are having a heart attack. Some of you believe the…

(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s satellite broadband firm, Starlink, on Tuesday said that it is complying with Brazil’s top court order to block access to social media platform X in the country, a day after informing the country’s regulator it would not obey the order. Starlink had emerged as a fresh battleground between Musk and Brazil, as…